38. Surah Sad, Verse 63
“Whom we took in derision — or does our sight miss them?”
Translations
Notes
Aisha Bewley
Did we turn them into figures of fun? Did our eyes disdain to look at them?’
Progressive Muslims
"Did we mock them erroneously, or have our eyes failed to find them"
Shabbir Ahmed
Whom we used to ridicule. (Are they not here) or is it that our eyes are missing them?"
Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation
“Whom we took in derision — or does our sight miss them?”
The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation
"Did we mock them erroneously, or have our eyes failed to find them?"
Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament
"We used to ridicule them; we used to turn our eyes away from them."
Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Did we laugh at them (for nothing), or our eyes fail to pick them out?"
Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)
Is it we took them in ridicule, or has vision turned away from them?"
Muhammad Asad
whom we made the target of our derision? Or is it that our eyes have missed them?"
Marmaduke Pickthall
Did we take them (wrongly) for a laughing-stock, or have our eyes missed them?
Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary
Is it that we mistakenly made fun of them; or have they disappeared from our sight?"
Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab
Did We esteem them men of evil wrongly, and unjustly we laughed them to scorn or have our eyes deviated into the wrong direction".
Bijan Moeinian
"Is it possible that we were wrong at mocking at them or it is only due to our bad eye-sight that we do not see them?"
Al-Hilali & Khan
Did we take them as an object of mockery, or have (our) eyes failed to perceive them?"
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
"Did we treat them (as such) in ridicule, or have (our) eyes failed to perceive them?"
Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran
Were we wrong in mocking them ˹in the world˺? Or do our eyes ˹just˺ fail to see them ˹in the Fire˺?"
Taqi Usmani
Had we taken them as a laughing-stock (unjustly), or have our eyes missed them?"
Abdul Haleem
and took as a laughing-stock? Have our eyes missed them?’
Arthur John Arberry
What, did we take them for a laughing-stock? Or have our eyes swerved away from them?'
E. Henry Palmer
whom we used to take for mockery? have our eyes escaped them?'
Hamid S. Aziz
"Was it that we took them wrongly in scorn, or have our eyes missed them?
Mahmoud Ghali
Did we take them to ourselves as a (target of) scoffing? Or have our be holdings swerved away from them?"
George Sale
and whom we received with scorn? Or do our eyes miss them?
Syed Vickar Ahamed
"Did we treat them with mockery, or have (our) eyes failed to see them?"
Amatul Rahman Omar
`Is it because we (unjustly) held them in scorn or (is it) that (our) eyes have missed them?'
Ali Quli Qarai
Did we ridicule them , or do eyes miss them ?’